Last year I had a good discussion with two architecture students from Norway, Mathias Kempton and Gislunn Halfdanardottir. They were doing research for their final project for the Masters degree in Architecture at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, about landscape, tourism and energy issues in Iceland, not least in the light (or shadow) of the recent Kárahnjúkar controversy. I found their thoughts about these issues very interesting. And now their project is finished: National Purist Routes: Industrial Expansion and Moving Icelandic Landscapes. In the report, they present numerous ideas about more progressive and diverse uses of Icelandic energy than was the case in the Kárahnjúkar power project. Energy stations at abandoned farms, communication with mussels, heated sunbathing spots at Þeistareykir og and a new Eden („drive-in Paradise“) in Hveragerði are some of the ideas discussed. Among other things, they question the ideology underwriting the recently completed Master Plan for Hydro and Geothermal Energy Resources in Iceland and think it might not be all that helpful to think about the world in discrete conceptual boxes like „human-made“ and „natural“. Really well executed and provocative piece of work.